ABSTRACT:
This article seeks
to emphasize a simplified approach to phylogeny research using complete mitochondrial
genomes alone, while touching upon a number of technological perspectives, such
as algorithmic selection, which can help improve accuracy and performance in
comparative analysis. My results will show that reliable estimations can be
obtained by using mitochondrial markers, even among time-extended taxonomical
rankings. Six distinct mammalian groups of taxa were selected for comparison.
In all cases, mtDNA models generated reliable phylogeny approximations when
compared against other independent data, while rendering exceptional
computational performance.